97 days ago
by mafe |
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Pallet style bedalmost made from pallets…
Ok, that is a little foolish, but the truth!For the first time in quite a few years I have a real bedroom, so I wanted to build myself a really nice bed.I had no budget, meaning it was ok if it was not cheap.But I have been in love with the idea of a pallet bed for quite some time, and so I wanted to realize that dream.First step was to check where I could get some pallets at a fair price since I wanted them new, and that was possible.Nex...
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1148 days ago
by tyskkvinna |
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I am embarking on my first piece of actual furniture. It is going to be a bed, which I am making for myself.
I saw something I really liked and inspected it thoroughly.. then drew up a design.
This is what the rough design looks like. I would really appreciate some input.
The foot/head is 24” tall and the sides are 12”. I may knock the sides down a bit, I’m not sure. I have some 2×6 so it may end up being 11”...
What I am going to do for the head/f...
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494 days ago
by Craftsman on the lake |
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Once again, this blog series is a queen size platform bed made of hard maple.
The platform or actually the bed is done. Yet to make is the bed head. I decided to finish the bed, sand and poly it then flip it onto it’s side so that I can gain some moving around room in the shop. A bed that is 60”x80” takes up a lot of room. I’ve been cramped.
I decided to put the bed on roller stands. It made it much better to work on and is sturdy. As you can see the end of the b...
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882 days ago
by chscholz |
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When mentioning that Chinese woodworking does not use glue I always get the question how to edge-joint without glue.
On a recent trip to Southern China I had the opportunity to see a very nice example on what it looks like. The Perl River Delta (roughly the triangle spanned by Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Macau) is quite pleasant in Winter but extremely hot and humid in Summer. Since electricity is quite expensive people there tend to use the AC orders of magnitude less than in the US. This pu...
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455 days ago
by Fraser Gandy |
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So, I’ve started the bed and its been going pretty good so far. I had all the stock that i had already bought (still need to find a few pieces and pick up the hardward, however its not Really needed until the end, so im not worried about it) resting in the shop for about 10 days which is good! The wood im using for the this project is Poplar, its easy enough to work with, it stains up beautifully, and was readily available and on the lower end of the price market.
Onto the woodworkin...
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1835 days ago
by PurpLev |
8 comments »
So for a very long time I have been planning to build my daughter a bed.
I have been reading anything I could get about bed construction (I really liked “Anatomy of a Bed” from Fine Woodworking), checking out different beds for design concepts, and construction methods, and have been mentally practicing building it for the longest time.
so I finally came up with the following design. frame is all Maple, joinery is Mortise & Tenon and headboard/footboard panels are planne...
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1236 days ago
by RKW |
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good afternoon jocks,The garage is freezing so i decided to take a break and share the project i have been working on for the last couple of months. I am far from finished but have made some progress. This is also my first time to use photo bucket therefore im not sure if this will come out like i think. Here is a photo of my work in progress.
Im far enuff along that you can see the basic concept that im going for. The platform on top is 3/4 mdf in which i plan to add a hardwoo...
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1476 days ago
by John Nixon |
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I’m working on building an Arts and Crafts style Panel bed. The bed is inspired by the Stickley Bed pictured below. There’s three videos in the series so far, and I hope to have more out soon. The quartersawn white oak grain on this wood I have looks really good in person, and I’m excited to see the bed come together.
For measured drawings and in-process pictures, you can visit the project page at Eagle Lake Woodworking:http://www.eaglelakewoodworking.com/post/Arts-and...
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1297 days ago
by Vincent Labreche |
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Hi, So here is my attempt to creating a queen sized bed for my Girlfriend and I.
Greatly inspired by beautiful beds I saw around LJ, I generated my adaptation of the design using CATIA v5 3D modeler. around march/april 2009Bought several tools to start up a workshop from april to juneGot the materials in June.Paused from june to september to learn how to use my tools on other projects (workbench / few things for the apartment) and to settle in my new appartmentStarted actively working on t...
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1244 days ago
by gbarteck |
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My family is just too big…
Either that or my house is too small.
We have four children at home. Two are college age, and two are in their early teens. Thye two youngest ones share a bedroom…nothing uncommon about that. However, they definitely do not want to use bunk beds. As you might imagine, this can lead to floor space issues. This is especially true when you consider that they really can’t share a single dresser, and they both have school work that needs doin...
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